A fireside chat with Rana Sabbagh, an Arab woman who introduced the unknown culture of investigative journalism into the largely autocratic, male-dominated MENA region. Rana Sabbagh’s four-decade d...
Alia Ibrahim
Alia Ibrahim is a co-founder and CEO of Daraj.com, an independent digital media platform that was launched in November 2017.
Before that Ibrahim was a Senior Correspondent at Al-Arabiya News Channel. Since 2015, Ibrahim has produced and directed episodes for Special Mission, a prime-time investigative reporting show. She joined Al-Arabiya in 2008 as a senior roving correspondent.
Ibrahim’s opinion and news stories appear in a number of publications including Al-Hayat newspaper, Al-Arabiya net, and until 2011 The Washington Post where she had been a contributing reporter since 2005. She started her career in 1996 as a general news reporter at The Daily Star in Beirut. She became managing editor of the newspaper in 2004. Since 2016, she has been an instructor of Journalism at the Lebanese American University.
She is a mother of two girls Yasma 17, and Mia 16.
Events IJF 2025
In this panel, three leading investigative reporters will share their tools of the trade while working on high-impact investigations across the MENA region -- which according to RSF remains the most d...
The war in Gaza has been having a shape-shifting effect on global politics, alongside some of its key references, such as human rights, international law and realpolitik. Global journalism has been eq...
Looking back to look forward at 3 years of innovation funding across the world. A presentation of the main global trends featuring recipients and jurors. Sponsored by Google News Initiative.
New revenues, new freedoms: business model innovations from politically pressured contexts
The overall economic reliance of journalism in politically pressured contexts is on donor funding. Time and again, published analysis and reports say weak markets, soft corruption, and apathetic aud...
New revenues, new freedoms: business model innovations from politically pressured states
The overall economic reliance of journalism in fragile states is on donor funding. Time and again, published analysis and reports say weak markets, soft corruption, and apathetic audiences make busine...
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